The Spiff Blog

MAY 26, 2022

So, you’ve realized commission spreadsheets are actually evil, and that sales incentive software will vastly improve transparency, efficiency, and your personal sanity. After all, the last thing you want is to sink time and resources into a brand new sales incentive software, only to find yourself struggling to use it. Problem solved.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 19, 2018

Author: George Kriza, CEO, MTCPerformance For most large resellers or distributors, sales incentive programs for internal sales teams get little attention from top financial executives inside their organizations. Most multibillion-dollar reseller and distributor organizations attract millions of incentive dollars. Reseller Benefit: $0.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

The purpose of every incentive compensation plan is to influence the actions of sales reps. Sales incentives can be like square pegs. Incentive compensation is intended to reward specific behaviors of the sales force. Here are some real-life examples of poorly designed incentives. Product Launch Incentive.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

One of the biggest purchases a Sales Department makes is the CRM system. Companies that have successfully implemented a system tout benefits like: Increased rep productivity. Integration of multiple systems to automate routine tasks. In many of these deployments the CRM system exists in a silo. They give up.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 22, 2024

Implement motivation strategies that resonate on a personal level, such as tailored incentive programs and recognition systems that highlight individual contributions to the team’s goals. This system should include training for leaders and team members on effective communication to ensure productive and motivational feedback.

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Xactly

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Few leading indicators are more predictive of a company’s future sales performance than its incentive compensation plans. While multiple factors influence the effectiveness of your sales incentive compensation plans, 5 tips stand out: 1. Creating incentive programs that work require balancing multiple design choices.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 25, 2019

If set correctly, incentives can have a positive effect on your team's behavior. The commission, bonuses, and sales performance incentive funds (SPIFs) you thought were inspiring your team can become more harmful than helpful if reps put their numbers ahead of their customers, who can feel pressured to buy.

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Xactly

JANUARY 2, 2019

Ultimately, the new compensation and incentive plans must successfully motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. In this post we’re sharing tips from Nuance Communication Commissions System Manager, Robert Walters. Meet The Expert – Robert Walters, Commissions System Manager.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 23, 2020

If you are selling servers or cybersecurity, then your customers may need to ramp up their capacity or be better at protecting their system from hackers as access has now increased exponentially. If you are selling sales incentive trips, you may want to find things to keep you busy. What’s Next? Do you have this week mapped out?

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Xactly

MAY 10, 2018

Historically, sales performance incentives have been focused on individual recognition. But only offering individual sales incentives is narrow-minded and can be supplemented with team-based rewards. The concern is that group incentives can undercut individual ones, but you can strike an effective balance. This approach works.

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Xactly

JUNE 7, 2018

Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) solutions help companies manage their sales compensation plans and calculate commission payments. With the addition of any new application, companies continue to ask key questions during the evaluation process, including: How seamlessly will the system be integrated into our existing infrastructure.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Teaser: As systems and networks become more complex, customers don’t just need a salesperson, they need a consultant — and are more than willing to pay a fee for this expertise. Author: Dan Hawtof, Vice President of Business Solutions, Global Channel, Blackhawk Engagement Solutions.

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Xactly

AUGUST 8, 2018

Sales and Finance leaders typically deal with limited insights, convoluted systems, and employee demands wherever compensation is concerned. Watch the webinar, "How to Enhance Workforce Culture, Employee Retention and Customer Relationships through Incentive Compensation," to see exclusive findings from the CFO Alliance study.

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OpenSymmetry

JUNE 9, 2016

The Journey to Sales Incentive Optimization. A familiar scenario that salesforces experience is the excitement and optimism of the new sales incentive launch, followed by the realisation that: New rules have been introduced which limit the kind of high payouts experienced last year which made the plan unaffordable.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

Channel leaders have the unprecedented opportunity to invest in and improve channel automation systems, including sales incentive platforms, partner portals, digital training programs and through-channel marketing. When it comes to channel engagement, the right mix of sales incentive tools is still the most effective and impactful.

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 16, 2020

Call recording systems are a great tool for training, quality assurance, and legal purposes. 10 Reasons Why You Need A Call Recording System For Your Sales Team. Using a tagging system for each call recording will enable staff to search for specific calls and locate an instructive call example that matches their need.

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The Brooks Group

AUGUST 2, 2017

What Is a Sales Incentive? . A sales incentive is money or some other type of reward offered to salespeople for selling a particular amount of goods or services. . It’s a great idea to offer options when you’re running a sales incentive program. Here are some creative sales incentives other than money to get you started.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 27, 2019

There’s a simple solution that will help streamline this issue and create more time for sales reps to spend actually selling the product or service: implement a sales and compensation system that’s transparent and easier to understand. Sales incentives are meant to attract and retain top talent, keeping them engaged in their work.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 17, 2020

Channel leaders have the unprecedented opportunity to invest in and improve channel automation systems, including sales incentive platforms, partner portals, digital training programs and through-channel marketing (TCMA). This may include creative story-telling, original content, digital training videos, and more.

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OpenSymmetry

OCTOBER 11, 2017

As it relates to operational challenges pertaining to period-to-period incentive compensation processing, the following three challenges emerged from the survey results: Limited reporting. This would likely reduce drastically if on an ICM system. Absence of scalability.

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OpenSymmetry

OCTOBER 14, 2016

To further illustrate this point, a recent class action lawsuit filed by six former employees claims they were fired or demoted for refusing to open fake accounts to meet a quota of opening 10 new accounts per day, alleging that it was “impossible to consistently meet a quota without engaging in ‘gaming’” or cheating the system.

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The question is, what are the best strategies for increasing diversity in the social story selling system? In this article, we’re going to talk about why diversity is so important and how a diverse social story selling system can help you in sales. 7 Rules to Develop Your Social Story Selling System.

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OpenSymmetry

JANUARY 18, 2016

Our customers are seeing long-term success with implementing enterprise Incentive Compensation Management and Sales Performance Management solutions for their organizations. This ensures the system is prepared to handle all expected outputs. Lack of knowledgeable resources (both business and testing).

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MEDDIC

MARCH 16, 2023

Offer sales incentives with an achievement system A powerful way to motivate salespeople is to offer incentives. However, the achievement system that awards these incentives should be set up in a way to ensure that incentives are earned and not simply given out for participation.

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

These pillars include organizational alignment, robust reporting, ongoing professional development, incentive compensation, and sales enablement. Incentive alignment : Shared goals enable the design of incentive structures that motivate sales reps while aligning with the broader success of the organization.

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LevelEleven

MAY 17, 2018

Many modern sales teams are implementing a Sales Management System that integrates with their CRM in order to motivate, engage, and coach their teams around the behaviors that support their business goals. We’re in sales and salespeople like incentives. Q & A with Derek Wong, Geopointe Sales Development Supervisor.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It’s not intuitive, then, that these two functions often exist in silos, each having their own systems and processes. Lead Scoring and Prioritization Sales and marketing teams can develop and refine a lead scoring system that identifies and prioritizes potential customers based on specific criteria.

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Xactly

AUGUST 1, 2018

A strong incentive plan drives sales behaviors that help companies grow and achieve their goals. Successful sales compensation plans require a balance between motivating incentives and revenue-driving factors, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be a stressful, time-consuming task. Tell us about your career journey in sales compensation.

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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

For many businesses, the answer lies in offering incentives like spiffs, spivs, or commission structures. Essentially, it’s a special incentive offered to salespeople, usually over and above their usual commission or bonuses. Types of sales spiffs A spiff incentive can take a few different forms. Physical gifts.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2018

But when it comes to incentives, you don’t reward a generation. Every incentive program needs the right awards to engage and inspire their target participants. Life stages tend to outweigh generational difference when it comes to incentive awards. Leaders ignoring this generation do so at their own peril.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 31, 2020

For example, incentives may shift to include focus on existing customers instead of net new sales and also could move towards a discretionary model with subjective KPIS rather than a formulaic commission driven plan. After all, an incentive plan cannot motivate employees if it is too complex for them to understand.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 17, 2024

By developing expertise in these areas, we would create greater value and greater success in incenting our customers to change and supporting them through their change process. As much as we tire talking about the constancy of change, our jobs as sellers only exist because of change. And there’s a bonus on top of this!

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Xactly

JUNE 27, 2018

Those who work to create a plan for their company must develop a compensation process and incentive plan that will motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. At Xactly, we want to provide an integrated incentive compensation planning process. Tell us about your career journey in sales compensation.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Harnessing AI requires a strong alignment of incentives across departments, coupled with high-quality data and experienced resources to get the job done. Combining a potential buyer’s firmographic data and purchase history, for example, gives product recommendation systems a foundation for understanding where a company is today.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

AI systems enable human-like problem-solving capabilities in machines through a combination of computer science and complex datasets. It can pull, process, and organize data, and then build plans based on the rules you input into the AI-powered system. Your goal is to offer the right incentive to drive specific sales behaviors.

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Xactly

JUNE 27, 2018

Those who work to create a plan for their company must develop a compensation process and incentive plan that will motivate the right sales behaviors to achieve goals, all while driving growth. At Xactly, we want to provide an integrated incentive compensation planning process. Tell us about your career journey in sales compensation.

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OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the second scenario, the organisation has a strong HR or Sales leader driving the project who wants to look at a simplified process or wants a simplified incentives landscape before they start automating. Finally, 70-80% of companies will have no or at best inflexible technology to support incentives. A Clear Roadmap.

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